"SWEET NOVEMBER," starring Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron.
"Sweet November" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).
Look at me standing naked in cold and shifting sweet March.
The bread was still crusty on the outside, but perfumed with garlic, good olive oil and the juice of sweet August tomatoes.
Bright Sheng's "Sweet May Again," inspired by a William Carlos Williams poem, offered a jazzy bustle punctuated by high, keening passages on bass and animated display from both players.
The Film Forum series includes two other hardboiled mid-forties Chandler movies — "Murder, My Sweet" (Dec. 21), featuring the musical star Dick Powell as Marlowe, and "The Blue Dahlia" (Dec.
Julia Roberts had a stab at Dying Young, and Charlize Theron and Winona Ryder followed suit in Sweet November and Autumn In New York (it's never May or springtime, is it?).
Ditto Dying Young, in which Campbell Scott (leukemia) stays young and handsome to the bitter end, Charlize Theron (non-Hodgkin lymphoma) in Sweet November, and Winona Ryder (neuroblastoma) in Autumn in New York.
Recent movie romances like "Sweet November" have failed because they resorted to hoary plot devices to resuscitate the beast, as if the stories could be revived without the repression and reserve that generated them.
This seems like a perfectly reasonable question, and it is certainly one that should haunt the makers of "Sweet November" and, for that matter, anyone who goes to see it.
